A Russian Iskander missile struck an ordinary village shop in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where five-year-old Mariyka was picking out cookies with her grandmother. Her grandmother, Tamara Ivanivna, is no longer with us. Mariyka survived, but she lost half of her leg. The situation is complicated by the fact that the girl has autism. The little one cannot express her despair in words and endures phantom pain in isolation. Due to her injuries, there has been a significant regression in her skills, which complicates the prosthetic fitting process.

The girl's mother, Valeriia Karyachka, talks about how the war strikes twice. Even before the full-scale invasion, parents of children with mental disabilities faced many difficulties and challenges. Every day is a titanic labor just to teach the child basic life skills and how to interact with the world. When a blast injury is added to autism, this fragile world is shattered to its foundations.

Mariyka cannot comprehend where her leg went and struggles to adjust to the prosthetic. Every day, the little girl wanders through the rooms looking for her late grandmother, who was her main pillar of support. The girl's mother reflects on why our society proves to be totally unprepared to encounter such scarred childhoods. Yet, despite the exhaustion, this story is also about the amazing resilience born from great love.